Egyptian Museumالمتحف المصري

Egyptian Museum opened in 1902 on Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and was created to keep Egypt’s antiquities under public guardianship after decades of excavation, trade, and dispersal. Its Beaux-Arts halls by Marcel Dourgnon bring together royal sculpture, mummies, and tomb equipment—including the treasures of Tutankhamun—so the collection reads as a long argument about power, ritual, and the afterlife. For many Egyptians it remains an emblem of the modern nation’s duty to its ancient past.